This video, the second in a series about settling the American colonies, is about the experiment known as Maryland. Maryland was dreamt up by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, as a refuge for English Catholics in a period when they were unable to practice openly. Like certain other colonies, Maryland was part of an elite…
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Confederates Interred in France?
Produced and Presented By: The History Underground Aug 2023 Think you know History? Check out History Underground on Facebook and YouTube – You may just learn more than you thought you knew… On 19 Jun 1864, the CSS Alabama and the USS Kearsarge met in a fierce battle off the coast of France. In the end, the inferior shells of the CSS Alabama…
Matilda (O’Neill) Wood Memorial Plaque
Matilda O’Neill Wood (Image: Maryland Center for History and Culture) “Heroine of Havre de Grace” 1796-1867 In the late spring of 1813, the British Navy under Rear Admiral George Cockburn was in the midst of a campaign of plunder and destruction along the upper eastern shore of Maryland, looting and destroying settlements and fisheries up…